Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 էջ |
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... Italy should prove highly interesting . When we turn to the second group , the examples of the work of famous biographers , we meet new phases of the art of recording men's lives . Now , the shrewdness with which the author has ...
... Italy should prove highly interesting . When we turn to the second group , the examples of the work of famous biographers , we meet new phases of the art of recording men's lives . Now , the shrewdness with which the author has ...
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... Italy ; offered help to the Savoyards , but was imprisoned by the French at Lyons , 1615 ; stayed with Prince of Orange , 1616 ; on his return became intimate with Donne , Carew , and Ben Jonson ; named by Buckingham ambassador at Paris ...
... Italy ; offered help to the Savoyards , but was imprisoned by the French at Lyons , 1615 ; stayed with Prince of Orange , 1616 ; on his return became intimate with Donne , Carew , and Ben Jonson ; named by Buckingham ambassador at Paris ...
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... Italy , 1764-5 , formed plan of his ' History ' amid the ruins of the Capi- tol ; with Deyverdun published ' Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande - Bre- tagne , ' 1767-8 , contributing a review of Lyttelton's ' Henry II ' : issued ...
... Italy , 1764-5 , formed plan of his ' History ' amid the ruins of the Capi- tol ; with Deyverdun published ' Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande - Bre- tagne , ' 1767-8 , contributing a review of Lyttelton's ' Henry II ' : issued ...
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... Italy , the students , who swarm from different countries , are loosely dispersed in private lodgings at the houses of the burghers : they dress according to their fancy and fortune ; and in the intemperate quarrels of youth and wine ...
... Italy , the students , who swarm from different countries , are loosely dispersed in private lodgings at the houses of the burghers : they dress according to their fancy and fortune ; and in the intemperate quarrels of youth and wine ...
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... Italy of the learned Muratori ; and diligently com- pared them with the parallel or transverse lines of Sigonius and ... Italian classics . My Greek studies ( though less assiduous than I designed ) maintained and extended my knowledge ...
... Italy of the learned Muratori ; and diligently com- pared them with the parallel or transverse lines of Sigonius and ... Italian classics . My Greek studies ( though less assiduous than I designed ) maintained and extended my knowledge ...
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Էջ 619 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Էջ 73 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Էջ 80 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Էջ 461 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Էջ 63 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Էջ 373 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Էջ 259 - The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires of Thirty-eight, of which Dodsley told me that they were brought to him by the author that they might be fairly copied. " Almost every line," he said,
Էջ 327 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Էջ 214 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Էջ 456 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].